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SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE ON PATIENT SAFETY:
IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH The Research Priority Setting Working Group of the World Alliance for Patient Safety World Health Organization 2008 This publication of the World Health Organization aims to outline the future direction of patient safety research across the globe. Patient safety research does not have the benefit of the well-established approaches available to other fields of medical study. Multiple hurdles and challenges will need to be faced when designing trials, conducting audits and making use of novel techniques, such as those that directly involve the patient as a partner in risk identification and problem resolution. This is partly related to the fact that patient safety research is a new field of study and that traditional research methods may therefore need to be suitably adapted.

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